How to recognize the symptoms of cholera and react to these signs?

Published on : 21/10/2022 – 06:00

On October 2, the World Health Organization issued an epidemiological alert concerning the resurgence of cholera in Haiti.

What are the characteristic symptoms of cholera? How do you react to these signs? What should those around you do, even if they don’t have symptoms? What is the key prevention message?

• Pr Renaud Piarroux, professor at Sorbonne University and head of department at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, specializing in parasitic and tropical diseases. Specialist in cholera epidemics. Author of the book “Cholera Haiti 2010-2018 History of a disaster” published by Biblis.

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